Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Santiniketan (contd-18)

Rabindranath had a close relationship with the family of Keshab Chandra Sen and this close relationship helped him to be acquianted with the husband of Sucharu Devi,  King of Mayurbhanja Ramchandra Bhanjadev. With reference to this he wrote Mohit Chandra Sen,  Once I shall stand face to face with Mayurbhanja. I'm afraid his help might eclipse our school. We shall not make the school dependent on any body economically. In that case it will lose its spiritual path. If I take the school from Santiniketan and put it to another place then that will be similar to place it from frying pan to fire.  
Rabindranath was talking to remove the school from Santiniketan to some other place. He wrote in this letter also, You ask your friend if they can find a suitable place, then inform me.Ask Jagadish also about this.
Jagadish Chandra came to Santiniketan from Darjeeling on 13th Nov and return back to Calcutta with Rabindranath on 16th Nov.
In Brahmacharyashram there were one month's winter vacation.After the vacation Rabindranath wrote on Sunday to Mohit Chandra,
Either in the morning train or in Bombay mail I shall reach Calcutta. So we can meet on Wednesday. Rabindranath reached Calcutta on 5 Jan.
On 7th Jan he went to Selaidah with Mira, Sami, Rathindranath, Santosh Chandra and a school teacher Subodh Chandra Majumdar.
In the mean time the school teacher Manoranjan Bandyopadhyay who sat for BL exam. and had gone through the examination. The news of his success came to Selaidah via Santiniketan. At this Rabindranath said,
Two of your student Rathi and Santosh and Prof. Subodh were swimming in the river when I informed them the news . On hearing the news they were so delighted that they made the water of the river blown in twice the speed they were doing earlier.